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1960s | |
Johnny Rivers', "Secret Agent Man"
Misheard Lyrics: Secret daydream man
Original Lyrics: Secret Agent Man
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Peter, Paul, and Mary's, "If I Had a Hammer"
Misheard Lyrics: I’d hammer for a moment
or I’d hammer for a Mormon or I’d hammer for a woman Original Lyrics: I’d hammer in the morning
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1970s | |
The Doors', "L.A. Woman"
Misheard Lyrics: Well I dig a little den about an hour ago
Original Lyrics: Well I just got into town about an hour ago
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Tom Jones', "Daughter of Darkness"
Misheard Lyrics: Gone is the love that we shed together
Original Lyrics: Gone is the love that we shared together
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1980s | |
Billy Joel's, "All for Leyna"
Misheard Lyrics: Don't want anyone nude
Original Lyrics: Don't want anyone new
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Bon Jovi's, "You Give Love a Bad Name"
Misheard Lyrics: Blood red nails on your bag of chips
Original Lyrics: Blood red nails on your fingertips
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Bon Jovi's, "You Give Love a Bad Name"
Misheard Lyrics: Chuckie the heart and you're to blame
Original Lyrics: Shot through the heart and you're to blame
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Bon Jovi's, "You Give Love a Bad Name"
Misheard Lyrics: Jock in the heart and you're too late
You can't love a Band Aid Original Lyrics: Shot in the heart and you're to blame
You give love a bad name |
Bon Jovi's, "You Give Love a Bad Name"
Misheard Lyrics: Locked in the car, and you're to blame
Original Lyrics: Shot through the heart and you're to blame
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Bon Jovi's, "You Give Love a Bad Name"
Misheard Lyrics: Locked in the car, and you're to blame
Original Lyrics: Shot through the heart and you're to blame
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Bon Jovi's, "You Give Love a Bad Name"
Misheard Lyrics: Locked in the car, and you're to blame.
Original Lyrics: Shot through the heart and you're to blame.
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Bon Jovi's, "You Give Love a Bad Name"
Misheard Lyrics: Ray Charles's smile on your lips
Bloody nails on your fingertips Original Lyrics: Paint your smile on your lips
Blood red nails on your fingertips |
Bon Jovi's, "You Give Love a Bad Name"
Misheard Lyrics: Shop through the halls and you're to blame
Original Lyrics: Shot through the heart and you're to blame
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Bon Jovi's, "You Give Love a Bad Name"
Misheard Lyrics: Shopping again and you're too late
Original Lyrics: Shot through the heart and you're to blame
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Bon Jovi's, "You Give Love a Bad Name"
Misheard Lyrics: Shot in the a*** and you're to blame
You give pubs a bad name Original Lyrics: Shot through the heart and you're to blame
You give love a bad name |
Bon Jovi's, "You Give Love a Bad Name"
Misheard Lyrics: Shot in the dark and you're to blame,
You give love a bad name. Original Lyrics: Shot through the heart and you're to blame,
You give love a bad name. |
Bon Jovi's, "You Give Love a Bad Name"
Misheard Lyrics: Shot threw the heart and you're too late
Original Lyrics: Shot through the heart and you're to blame
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Bon Jovi's, "You Give Love a Bad Name"
Misheard Lyrics: Shot through the heart and you're so lame
Original Lyrics: Shot through the heart and you're to blame
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Bon Jovi's, "You Give Love a Bad Name"
Misheard Lyrics: Shot through the heart and you're to blame,
You give love a back pain. Original Lyrics: Shot through the heart and you're to blame,
You give love a bad name. |
Bon Jovi's, "You Give Love a Bad Name"
Misheard Lyrics: Shot through the heart and you're to blame.
You give love the mayonnaise. Original Lyrics: Shot through the heart and you're to blame.
You give love a bad name. |
Bon Jovi's, "You Give Love a Bad Name"
Misheard Lyrics: Shot through the heart, and you're too late
Original Lyrics: Shot through the heart, and you're to blame
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Bon Jovi's, "You Give Love a Bad Name"
Misheard Lyrics: Shot through the heart, in your duvet
Original Lyrics: Shot through the heart, and you're to blame
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Bon Jovi's, "You Give Love a Bad Name"
Misheard Lyrics: Shot to the heart and you're too late
Original Lyrics: Shot through the heart and you're to blame
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Bon Jovi's, "You Give Love a Bad Name"
Misheard Lyrics: Shout through the heart, and you're too late,
You give love a bad name. Original Lyrics: Shot through the heart, and you're to blame,
You give love a bad name. |
Bon Jovi's, "You Give Love a Bad Name"
Misheard Lyrics: Shout to the heart and you're too lame
Darling, you give love a bad name Original Lyrics: Shot through the heart and you're to blame
Darling, you give love a bad name |
Bon Jovi's, "You Give Love a Bad Name"
Misheard Lyrics: Shout to the heart in your two lane
Original Lyrics: Shot through the heart and you're to blame
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Bon Jovi's, "You Give Love a Bad Name"
Misheard Lyrics: We make love the bad way
Original Lyrics: You give love a bad name
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Bon Jovi's, "You Give Love a Bad Name"
Misheard Lyrics: You give love a Band Aid
Original Lyrics: You give love a bad name
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Bon Jovi's, "You Give Love a Bad Name"
Misheard Lyrics: You give love a Band-Aid.
Original Lyrics: You give love a bad name.
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Bon Jovi's, "You Give Love a Bad Name"
Misheard Lyrics: You need love and a Band Aid.
Original Lyrics: You give love a bad name.
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Bon Jovi's, "You Give Love a Bad Name"
Misheard Lyrics: You need love, a Band Aid
Original Lyrics: You give love, a bad name
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Madonna's, "La Isla Bonita"
Misheard Lyrics: Your Spanish lover's eyes
Original Lyrics: Your Spanish lullaby
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Phil Collins', "You Can’t Hurry Love"
Misheard Lyrics: You can’t turn it up
or You can’t turn it off Original Lyrics: You can’t hurry love
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The B-52’s', "Love Shack"
Misheard Lyrics: Light show, baby light show
Original Lyrics: Love shack, baby love shack
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1990s | |
Backstreet Boys', "All I Have to Give"
Misheard Lyrics: But viruses are I have to give
Original Lyrics: But my love is all I have to give
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Bon Jovi's, "Always"
Misheard Lyrics: This rodeo is breeding
Original Lyrics: This Romeo is bleeding
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Cast of Bear in the Big Blue House's, "We're All Different"
Misheard Lyrics: And then we'll see
Original Lyrics: And then we'll sing
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Natalie Imbruglia's, "Torn"
Misheard Lyrics: So I guess a fortune tells us right
Original Lyrics: So I guess the fortune teller's right
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Technotronic's, "Pump Up the Jam"
Misheard Lyrics: And the damned is poopy
Original Lyrics: And the jam is pumpin’
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2000s | |
Daniel Bedingfield's, "Gotta Get Through This"
Misheard Lyrics: I gotta get lurid
Original Lyrics: I gotta get thru this
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Default's, "Wasting My Time"
Misheard Lyrics: Now I'm losing my turn
Original Lyrics: Now I'm wasting my time
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Nickelback's, "How You Remind Me"
Misheard Lyrics: It must have been Soul Train
Original Lyrics: It must have been so bad
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Weird Al Yankovic's, "White & Nerdy"
Misheard Lyrics: They see me roll on my Soul Train
Original Lyrics: They see me roll on my Segway
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2010s | |
Drake's, "Hotline Bling"
Misheard Lyrics: I know when that online bling
Original Lyrics: I know when that hotline bling
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Miguel's, "Sure Thing"
Misheard Lyrics: Big bad pimple
Gotta sweat that Original Lyrics: You could bet that
Never gotta sweat that |
Queensryche's, "Chapters"
Misheard Lyrics: A mentos please.
Original Lyrics: Lament the years and memories.
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misc | |
Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande's, "Rain On Me"
Misheard Lyrics: Titjobs on my face
Original Lyrics: Teardrops on my face
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